politics
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‘Decline Porn’: how far right YouTubers are pretending to be scared of London
Despite my excessively, almost self-parodically left-wing search history, I noticed recently that YouTube is trying to get me to click on videos of angry-looking white men doing walk-and-talk videos around London. In these, said white men (and, occasionally, women) walk around multicultural areas of London like Brixton and Whitechapel – let’s face it, it’s often Read more
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Prisoners for Palestine end their hunger strike
Prisoners for Palestine have ended their hunger strike, to a blaze of almost zero media coverage. There’s nothing about it on the BBC website. The Guardian did a story, but quickly removed it from their front page this morning. Despite this attempt to suppress the news, it remains, at the time of writing, the third Read more
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I’m striking in solidarity with Prisoners for Palestine
I’m taking part in a 24 hour hunger strike on Sunday, in solidarity with Prisoners for Palestine and in collaboration with Hunger for Justice. This is part of a rolling collective hunger strike. I’ll be outside the Supreme Court in London from midday this coming Sunday 11th January. You can read the hunger strikers’ demands Read more
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Green berets and creeping fascism
Wearing a Keffiyeh in the street leads to a variety of responses, ranging between glares, thumbs up, and baffled glances. Sometimes it even leads to conversation – usually constructive, and often interesting. It’s usually pretty easily to clock the politics of who is approaching and what it is they are likely to want to say. Read more
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How I spent US Election Night 2020-2024
November 7th, 2000. Bush wins. Earlsdon, Coventry. I am a History and Politics student. Myself and my housemate Tom vow not to go to bed until a winner is declared. Had we stuck to this, we would have been awake for over a month. November 2nd, 2004. Bush wins. New Malden, London. My then-future employer, Read more
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National March for Palestine, 11th November 2023
This was the biggest one yet – estimates of 800,000, and certainly the largest UK protest since the anti-Iraq war one twenty years ago. I received a lot of messages from friends telling me to “stay safe” and “be careful”, which makes me worry that people are increasingly afraid to assert their rights. Certainly the Read more
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